rT The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - A13 Man escapes serious injury | when his truck catches fire — MARGARET SPEIRS A MAN narrowly escaped serious injury when the truck he was working under caught fire and erupted into flames at his Halliwell Street - residence. _- Kevin . Beedle’s : fleece sweater sleeve caught fire ‘and melted to his skin caus- ing a slight burn to his right upper arm. He also received three stitches on his right palm from an injury caused: when. pulling himself out from | _ under the truck, but walked _, away otherwise unhurt.’ The insurance company . wrote off his truck. On Sept. 28, Beedle lay under his pickup truck on a “creeper, a flat wooden board on wheels, while holding a halogen light to illuminate > TERRACE RETURN-IT CENTRE 3110 KALUM ST., TERRACE e 635- -3779 © | (Beside Sears) Authorized Depot em Encorp Pacific (Canada) | [ewcone] www.encorp.ca 1-800-330-9767 KEVIN BEEDLE’S Ford three-quarter ton truck burns brightly while smoke darkens the sky at his Halliwell residence Sept. 28. Luckily Beedle, who was working under - the vehicle when it caught fire, suffered only minor injuries. | CONTRIBUTED PHOTO the vehicle’s undercarriage so he could. perform some maintenance on it. _ He suddenly found him- above the vehicle ignited and melted, cutting his telephone service for two days and a> hydro line was scorched but ' Terrace fire chief Péter. Weeber said the fire likely started from the work being - done on the truck and not as ‘quick response by us and the : -owner,” he said. ., . - , -’-Weeber added. that Bee- ' dle’s lack of injury is “not HOURS ti, fs ager self in the midst of a blaze as flames spread up his clothes . but miraculously missed his’ face, “Bang, I was on fire and - my stomach and legs were © all on fire,” he said, adding it was a“‘freaky thing.” He quickly grabbed the fuel shroud, a metal brack- et that: holds the gas tank, . ‘and yanked himself and the creeper out from under the still delivered power. . a result of the halogen bulb.. uncommon” and can.’ be His “awesome neigh- “We credit the limited _ bours”. John Bartlett and property damage - to. the Sean Kluss called the fire * OS department. : Beedle also phoned fire- © fighters who said they had received six calls already. ' The Terrace: fire depart- ment, arrived soon after to extinguish the blaze. The house escaped dam- credited-to the lack of fuel on his clothing. burning truck. age and the carport only suf- . Once free, he rolled sev- — ered wninor smoke damage, » -he sai eral times to smother the flames on his coveralls. ° . He then reached into the . Standard-shift vehicle, threw it into neutral and ‘pulled it out from under the carport . by the front bumper onto the driveway to avoid catching the house on fire. a Flames — seared’ through the metal toward the cab of. the: 1988 Ford three- -quarter ton truck. “The carport is all cedar too, so I was surprised it never lit up,” Beedle said. Black smoke darkened the sky as the truck became ‘-- » an inferno. Both rear tires blew with a bang and the front ones melted to the asphalt. Beedle said a Telus wire 3635c11PS When the ambulance ar- rived, Beedle refused to go to hospital with them. - “I wanted to make sure my truck was okay,” he said. He did drive himself to. the hospital where doctors said he “should be counting _ his [lucky] stars.” . Beedle said he has used. the 50 watt halogen ‘light in its full metal cage to do mechanical work under his truck before without prob- lem. oA, tow: struck ; hauled his , 4 charred vehicle away, but he. has a spare. “I haye a car. ’'m going ‘to wait until spring to buy another truck,” he said. Gy CRIME a STOPPER i “This overnment claims it has successfully “negotiated” settlements. In reality they have torn up collective agreements and imposed working conditions _on thousands of employees A message from the Terrace District Teachers Union BESTIN J USTOMER SERVICE’ Learn to Raise Early-stage Capital to grow Your Business | — Presenter: Roger Killen, | Waterford Executive Services _ years ago — service is everything. So to all our customers who named us the best and to all our employees who make us the best every day, thank-you. 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